A Brit found out the other day that loading a iPhone may be more dangerous than he imagines, and this is not because he used a counterfeit charger with a similar cable, but because he did it in an apparently unauthorized place.
Robin Lee is the name of the 45-year-old man who lives in Islington, he was arrested by the London police after he was seen charging his iPhone terminal at one of the outlets of the subway car in which he was traveling to London one morning.
The man was warned by a policeman on the train that those sockets in the carriages are intended only for people who carry out cleaning work in the respective carriages, passengers not having the right to use those sockets to charge their mobile terminals or anything else.
After this warning, the man was waited for in a train station by London police officers who arrested him and accused him of stealing electricity from the subway car he was traveling with, he was also accused of being assaulted at the time the apparent crime was brought to his attention.
A man was arrested under suspicion of stealing electricity after he tried to charge his iPhone in a socket on a train. Robin Lee, 45, an artist who lives in Islington, north London, was stopped by police following the incident on an overground train last Friday. He plugged his iPhone into a socket on the train but was approached by a police community support officer on board who warned him he was illegally extracting electricity. The sockets on overground trains are reserved for the use of cleaning staff.
Of course, the police released him in a very short time and for now it is not known if he will be investigated for the theft of electricity from the subway car, but the story itself is as embarrassing as it is comical, especially in a country that boast a high degree of civilization.
To be honest, it is downright ridiculous that a person should be treated in such a way for simply charging an iPhone terminal at an outlet, this in the conditions where a device of this kind consumes very little current, but those from London have a different opinion.
It is not vb that he used an iPhone terminal. As you said in the article, he was warned "that the outlet is intended only for those who do cleaning, not for anyone" So he could use anything else like that stain. What an article…
Did someone say the iPhone is to blame? What a comment…
Many steal electricity (both literally and figuratively)...:))
I live in England and that's how I suffered. It seems that the man was aggressive, when I was told about this, I apologized and they left me alone.
It is very important for them to show proof of "remorse". You can't even imagine how easily you can get away with many things. Like when you get caught speeding 10 mph over…
Zaone, what you don't understand is that in other countries it doesn't work like in Romania when the "garcea" comes and says something to you and you start arguing with the police and whoever screams the loudest and does the most circus wins.
Here, when you are told NO, it's NO! There is no "why doesn't it consume so much"...Plus, on the sockets in the overground it is clearly written "NOT FOR PUBLIC USE"!
If you are rude and don't follow the rules, you get it. Here you can wake up with record policies for many things that seem trivial to us. That's why if you, being a foreigner, comment in the UK that something doesn't suit you, you are recommended to go back where you came from.
I'm a fan of the way the police work in Romania, but if they arrest you for charging your iPhone, it's a bit stupid. If that one caused a scandal, then the arrest for the scandal is logical, but not for electricity theft...
It's not stupid at all... Write clearly: NOT FOR PUBLIC USE! Grains with grains make a bag of wheat... That's how it is here: rules are rules! For everyone!